Economics/Globalization

Losing Our Cool

Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

Stan Cox

A freewheeling and groundbreaking investigation into how our growing reliance on air conditioning has transformed the planet—and its continuing consequences for us all

Mismeasuring Our Lives

Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A major, timely new report on why GDP is a deeply flawed indicator of economic performance and social progress—and how to develop better indicators of societal well-being—by the renowned Nobel Prize–winning economists

The World According to Monsanto

Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

Marie-Monique Robin

Winner of the Rachel Carson prize, an explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world’s most influential multinational agricultural corporation

The Stiglitz Report

Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis

Joseph E. Stiglitz

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The comprehensive—and controversial—analysis by a blue-ribbon international commission of the causes and remedies for our world economic crisis, written by a UN committee chaired by the Nobel Prize–winning economist

Gristle

From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)

Edited by Moby and Miyun Park

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - For omnivores and vegans alike, a hard-hitting and eye-opening guide to the meat you eat, by the world’s most famous vegan

Economics for the Rest of Us

Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal

Moshe Adler

In a masterful and wonderfully accessible book—think Freakonomics and The Tipping Point —economist Moshe Adler does for economics what Howard Zinn has done for American history

The Moral Underground

How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

Lisa Dodson

The untold story of a silent movement for economic justice—led by ordinary middle-class Americans who bend the rules to help the working poor

Viral Spiral

How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

David Bollier

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture", from open-source software and Creative Commons licenses to remixes and web 2.0—in the tradition of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture

Unjust Deserts

How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back

Gar Alperovitz, Lew Daly

Why most of the wealth that is earned comes in the form of a "free lunch”—and why, logically, we must give most of it back to society as a result

Minding the Store

Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now

Edited by Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the Moral Lives of Children

Up to Our Eyeballs

How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt

José García, James Lardner, Cindy Zeldin

A groundbreaking book that debunks the notion that Americans’ personal indebtedness results from profligacy and offers startling analysis and realistic solutions

Bitter Chocolate

The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Carol Off

A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry – “Blood Diamonds” for chocolate

Blue Covenant

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Maude Barlow

NOW IN PAPERBACK From the internationally acclaimed environmentalist, an “engaging, eye-opening account” (The Indypendent) of the global movement for water justice, in the tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Unmarketable

Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

Anne Elizabeth Moore

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A writer and activist investigates corporate America’s inroads into—and alliances with—the cultural underground

Terra Nullius

A Journey Through No One's Land

Sven Lindqvist

A provocative journey through the dark history of the creation of white Australia, exposing the hidden genocide of the Aboriginal people

Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

Edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg

JOHN EDWARDS PUTS A SEMINAL ISSUE BACK ON THE MAP, PRESENTING BLUEPRINTS FOR ENDING POVERTY IN AMERICA

The Darker Nations

A People's History of the Third World

Vijay Prashad

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor

Latin America After Neoliberalism

Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America

The End of the Line

How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat

Charles Clover

Picking up where Cod left off, an “invaluable” (Financial Times) look at the global crisis of overfishing

The Body Hunters

Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

Sonia Shah

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening look at big pharma’s unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South—the true story behind The Constant Gardener

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

Helen Caldicott

NOW IN PAPERBACK The world-renowned antinuclear activist’s “expertly argued” (The Guardian) case against nuclear energy

After the Storm

Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina

Edited by David Dante Troutt

NOW IN PAPERBACK On the second anniversary of Katrina, one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Coast tragedy

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy

A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, James Heintz, Nancy Folbre

The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy

The Color of Wealth

The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

Meizhu Lui, Bárbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap

The Coffee Book

Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

Nina Luttinger, Gregory Dicum

REVISED AND UPDATED A compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running

Wal-Mart

The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first century economy

Inequality Matters

The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

Edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith

Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore

Priceless

On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling

A timely and much needed corrective to the current infatuation with cost benefit analysis and the derelict logic used to defend it

Field Guide to the Global Economy

Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Thea Lee

An eye-opening, twenty-first-century guide to the myths and realities of the international economy

Taxi!

Cabs and Capitalism in New York City

Biju Mathew

A front seat ride through the yellow cab industry of New York City

The Essential Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal

Edited by Örjan Appelqvist and Stellan Andersson

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive introduction to the world-renowned social scientist's political thought

Other People’s Money

The Corporate Mugging of America

Nomi Prins

NOW IN PAPERBACK In a widely acclaimed exposé, a former Wall street insider reveals how business executives and politicians schemed their way to the bank

Myths of Free Trade

Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

Sherrod Brown

NOW IN PAPERBACK A revised and updated edition of the provocative book from the man Studs Terkel calls
“one of the hippest members of congress”

Oil

A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth

Matthew Yeomans

NOW IN PAPERBACK “[A] well-researched, informative book, one of the best on the subject.” —THE WASHINGTON POST

The New Victorians

Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages

Stephen Pimpare

A controversial history of the Victorian roots of today’s conservative anti-welfare crusaders

The Water Atlas

A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource

Robin Clarke, Jannet King

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive charting of the global water industry

Amazonia

Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut

James Marcus

NOW IN PAPERBACK Employee #55’s story of the first five years of Amazon.com, which “brims with fascinating Amazoniana” (The Los Angeles Times)

Manifesto for a New World Order

George Monbiot

NOW IN PAPERBACK Visionary George Monbiot's road map for a global democratic revolution

Whose Trade Organization?

A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO

Lori Wallach, Patrick Woodall

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A meticulous chronicle of how the WTO has eroded democracy around the world

To Move a Mountain

Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia

Eve S. Weinbaum

What Should I Do if Reverend Billy Is in My Store?

Bill Talen

The spiritual leader of the renowned Church of Stop Shopping takes his anticonsumerist sermon from the stage to the page

Firing Back

Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

Pierre Bourdieu

Global Inc.

An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

Medard Gabel, Henry Bruner

A unique and startling visual representation of the rise of the global corporation

After the New Economy

The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won’t Go Away

Doug Henwood

Journalist Doug Henwood’s withering postmortem of the new economy

The Betrayal of Work

How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans

Beth Shulman

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen said “should be required reading for every presidential candidate and member of Congress”

Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern

John Gray

A provocative and stimulating reevaluation of Al Queda by one of Britain’s most controversial thinkers

Bombs and Bandwidth

The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security

Edited by Robert Latham

Power Play

The Fight to Control the World’s Electricity

Sharon Beder

The story behind the debacle of today’s power outages and soaring electricity costs

Crimes of War

Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Mary Nolan

A controversial look at wartime atrocities, by a group of distinguished historians

The Health of Nations

Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy

NOW IN PAPERBACK A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health

Two Faces of Liberalism

John Gray

Help Wanted

Tales from the First Job Front

Sydney Lewis

Unequal Partners

A Primer on Globalization

William K. Tabb

Blue Gold

The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke

The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis

Top Heavy

The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It

Edward N. Wolff

A revised and expanded edition of the shocking study that changed the way we think of wealth in America

America by the Numbers

A Field Guide to the U.S. Population

William H. Frey

An eye-opening, at-a glance guide to the myths and realities of American demography

Global Capitalism

Edited by Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens

NOW IN PAPERBACK an “illuminating exploration of the fast-changing landscape of capitalism” (Nature)

The Invisible Heart

Economics and Family Values

Nancy Folbre

A brilliant new approach to the economics of caregiving, from the MacArthur Award–winning economist

Cigarettes

Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke

Tara Parker-Pope

Economic Apartheid in America

A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity

Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel

REVISED PAPERBACK Following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America

The Living Wage

Building a Fair Economy

Robert Pollin, Stephanie Luce

False Dawn

The Delusions of Global Capitalism

John Gray

Global Finance at Risk

The Case for International Regulation

Lance Taylor, John Eatwell

Globalization and Its Discontents

Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money

Saskia Sassen

Forbidden Workers

Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

Peter Kwong

Acts of Resistance

Against the Tyranny of the Market

Pierre Bourdieu

Making a Killing

The Business Of Guns in America

Tom Diaz

Conglomerates and the Media

Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, Thomas Schatz

The Breaking of the American Social Compact

Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward

The Sneaker Book

Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon

Tom Vanderbilt

The Vampire State

And Other Myths and Fallacies About the U.S. Economy

Fred L. Block

The War on the Poor

A Defense Manual

Nancy Folbre, Randy Albelda

Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

Caribbean Slave Society and the Economy

A Student Reader

Edited by Hilary Beckles

Social Stratification in the United States

The American Profile Poster

Stephen J. Rose

PAPERBACK/POSTER A much anticipated update of the classic book and poster set depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom
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